7 Popular Indian Websites As They Looked A Decade Ago

We now take connectivity and social media for granted. The gossip on Whatsapp, the outrage on Twitter, the vacation pics on Facebook all keep our phone's notification tab busy. It's hard not to imagine what the digital media and internet landscape looked like a decade ago.

So we used a Way Back Machine to go and peer at what the Indian internet looked like 10-15 years ago, through the home pages of ten popular Indian websites.

Here's a flashback:

Rediff.com

The website, founded in 1996, is one of the oldest news, information, entertainment and shopping web portal. Here's what the website looked like in 1998.

This screenshot is from 1998. To put things in perspective, this was when Bollywood actor Govinda was making headlines and the rupee crossing the 42 mark was considered 'historic'. However, the political stories seem to have remained the same in the last 17 years--"Pressure mounts on Sonia" and "AIADMK readying for final push" could easily pass of as today's headlines.

The screenshot from the year 2000. One look at it and you know you have time travelled back to when Sensex used to be at 4731. Today, despite falling nearly 600 points, the Sensex is at 27,240. That's 15 years for you.